UK Deputy police
and crime commissioner resigns following spycop reports15.5.17
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has resigned following reports that he worked as an undercover
police officer in the early 1990s, infilitrating political groups
and deceiving a 19-year-old woman into a sexual relationship.

"A deputy police
and crime commissioner is facing calls to resign from his post
after his hidden past as an undercover spy infiltrating political
groups was revealed.

Andy Coles, the deputy
police and crime commissioner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough,
has been accused of deceiving a 19-year-old political activist
into forming a sexual relationship while he was an undercover
police officer in the 1990s.

The woman is taking
legal action against the police, alleging that Coles groomed
and manipulated her.

His past as an undercover
police officer began to unravel following an apparent indiscretion
by his younger brother, the broadcaster and former pop star the
Reverend Richard Coles."

"Jessica has written
this courageous statement as part of going public about recently
finding out that she had a relationship with Deputy Police &
Crime Commissioner Andy Coles, when she was 19, and he was an
undercover police officer. She knew him as Andy Davey,
a fellow activist. She wrote this statement in April 2017, but
it is being published on 12th May 2017, to coincide with her
story going live in the press. These are entirely her own words."

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